CAROLEE BENNETT SHERWOOD

napowrimo #9, or my superpower is missing

This was inspired by Kelli’s prompt #2 (there’s a link in the sidebar). When I use Kelli’s prompts, I try to make myself use them in order. This is the second one I’ve used this month, and so I wrote to #2 (see how it works?): Write a poem about a superhero coming to your house and confronting you about something. Somewhere in the poem, you have to state what your superpower is.

So I almost did what I was told. A superhero (me) comes to my house. But I forgot to include my superpower. I’m thinking it doesn’t matter to this poem, and I’m thinking it may just make it seem trite to give her a superpower. Of course, I waited ’til the last minute to write this tonight, and so I could just be too tired and lazy to imagine a superpower for the heroine.

A superpoem, Carolee, full of shazam and ker-pow! And the superpower is the day-to-day actuality of mum-hood. But two items are unaddressed:
what is your normal-world identity?
what is your Achilles’ heel?

This is playful and fun, delightful to read. I love how you incorporate the idea of talking in speech balloons – and the sound effect words throughout just work so well, especially in the last line. I’m intrigued by the sidekick – there’s an idea that I might fashion into a poem.